360 Video
Nikon Turns Attention Toward 360 Video with Expert Panel
Nikon’s foray into 360° video continued at the 'Nikon Innovation Forum: The 360° Video Revolution' event in NYC last week. There the company's recently released KeyMission 360 action camera was the centerpiece among non-360° action cameras of the same...
VR & Memory, and Fate vs Free Will in Simulation Theory
Hassan Karaouni is one of the 11 winners of an Oculus Launch Pad scholarship for his project My: home, which allows people to share 360 videos of locations that are meaningful to them. In my Voices of VR episode...
MelodyVR Introduces ‘iTunes of VR’ Concept to O2 Store Customers
Launching later this year on Rift, Gear VR, and Vive, music VR platform MelodyVR is previewing a light version of its app across some 600 O2 stores in Germany in partnership with Telefónica. 42 of those stores will allow...
Sony Pictures Plans to Use Nokia’s OZO to Make VR Content
Sony Pictures has struck a deal with Nokia to create 3D 360 content using Nokia OZO, the company's professional-quality 360 degree camera platform. Sony has said they'll be using OZO to create both special 360 content and to livestream their...
New YouTube VR App is Completely Re-designed for Daydream
YouTube has launched a new app to coincide with today's Daydream launch, one that's built for virtual reality headsets and designed from the ground up to work with Google's 'next gen' mobile VR platform.
Immersive video and VR film has...
Watch: Adobe Shows Off In-VR Premiere Video Editor ‘Project CloverVR’
Adobe have down off their solution for editing immersive 360 VR videos within VR itself as they took to the stage at their annual 'MAX' event last week to demonstrate their prototype in-VR editor for Premiere, 'CloverVR'.
Adobe Premiere is...
Stop-Motion Guru Phil Tippett Brings Nightmarish ‘MAD GOD’ Universe to VR
Phil Tippett, the visual effects genius behind classic stop-motion animation sequences from films such as the holochess scene from the Star Wars franchise, Jurassic Park (1993), and RoboCop 2 (1990), brings his latest stop-mo project MAD GOD to virtual reality.
Based on Tippett's eponymous short film MAD...
NextVR to Broadcast Over 20 Live NBA Games This Season, Coverage Starts Tonight
NextVR, the leader in live VR sports broadcasting, today released their full schedule for their live NBA coverage, including 25 games featuring 30 teams throughout the 2016-2017 season. Make sure to have your phone battery charged, your Gear VR lenses...
Steam to Get High Quality Adaptive 360 Video Streaming Service
360 video is coming to Steam and it looks as if Valve are aiming high in terms of the quality they're aiming to deliver to consumer VR headsets.
There's an op-ed piece I've been meaning to write for some time...
Ricoh Announces Theta SC, a Colorful Mid-Range Addition to 360 Camera Lineup
Ricoh, the Japanese imaging and electronics company, today announced a new model of the Theta, the company's pocketable 360 camera. It's called Theta SC.
The new Theta SC is a lighter, more colorful version of the Theta that has almost everything...
Watch HypeVR’s Impressive Volumetric 360 3D Video In Action
HypeVR may be poised to alter the 360 video landscape with their depth-mapped, volumetric video system that lets VR users move in, out and around the captured scene. Watch Fox's Futurist Ted Schilowitz as he gives one of the...
Pixvana Reveals 10K VR Video Player and Publishing Platform ‘SPIN’
Pixvana, a cloud-based VR video company, today announced their much awaited solution for publishing and streaming 360 video, a platform that promises to deliver up to 10K resolution streaming playback from the cloud to your VR devices. They're calling it Pixvana SPIN.
In a mission to...
Chess World Championships to Broadcast Live in Pay-per-view 360 Video
One of the world's oldest competitive games is to get the immersive video treatment as this November's World Championship is streamed live in 360 video.
Yes, you read that right. The 2016 Chess World Championships are to set to be...
First ‘StarVR’ 210 Degree FOV Headsets Have Shipped to IMAX
Starbreeze, Acer and the StarVR team are celebrating a milestone this week as the very first headsets, sporting a unique 210 degree field of view, have rolled off the production line and are winging their way to IMAX, who'll...
Confronting the End – ‘The Last Moments’ Gives You the Choice to Live or Die
The Last Moments immerses users in the discussion about euthanasia with a VR film that reveals the process of an assisted death.
Virtual reality and empathy go hand in hand. The very nature of being closed off to the world,...



















